Game



'Oct 20,1925, 1,551,788

J. c. ATKIN v www Filed Feb. '20, 1920 Patented Oct. 20, 1925.

UNITFEDy fsfr AT JOSEPH C. ATKIN, 0F SAN FRANCISCO; GALIFDENIA;

GAME.

Application: `iled cIlsebruary 20,v .1920;1 SeriaLNm 3603061.;

To all .whom it. may concern:

Be itknown thaty I, JOSEPH C. ATKIN, a'subje'ct ofMGreatfBritain, residi U-in vthe city and countyfof. San Francisco, tate .of Ca:liforniahaveinvented 'certain new and useful Improvements in Games, whereof the followingtis la specification.

This inventionrelates -to games, especially parlor games, and.. it comprises a game board, f andV support therefor, andA a game to be played thereon.

The object to provide a simple and cheapapparatus andan interesting game which shall require some skill to play it.

In carrying out the invention I provide a target with a series of thirteen hooks thereon, said hooks numbered in a certain order. The target is preferably circular in shape and supported upon an easel having three legs, which are self engaging and self fastening and have only to be applied to one another in proper position to engage and retain their position. The game includesalso a number of rings. Each player, of whom there may be any number, shall stand about eight feet from the board and shall pitchv six rings, endeavoring to have the rings engage the hooks in the numerical order of the latter. For example, if a player trying to get hook number 3, gets some other number, that number does not count. The winner is the one who first gets the thirteen hooks.

The board and hooks may also be used for the card game of Cribbage, instead of cards. Used this way, the players score all the fifteens possible, score all the runs possible. Five rings diagonally across the board may be the equivalent of a flush and count live points. The one may count as his nobs7 Other games may be played, as for example one which may be called High score, in which all numbers count, and the object is maire the highest score, up to, say, one hundred.

In the accompanying one sheet of drawing I have illustrated my invention in its best form, in six figures, of which g,-

Figure 1 is a front elevation, showing the target on the easel, with some of the rings engaged upon the hooks.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same. Figure 3 is a rear elevation of the upper part of the easel, showing how the back leg engages theitwo side legs and holds: them together.

Figure 4 vshows the .upper part of the. two sidelegs of ,theeasel separated, and shows the studsand sockets ,by which, they engage and.they-eyes,I for the engagementof the back leg; y

Figure isa front, ,or rear, elevationof the baclrleg,showingfthe fork toengage the eyes of thesidelegs.;v i

Figureffi is a side-elevationofvthe same.

Inl-the .iigures g-The target A is provided with;` thirteen hookst circularly arranged thereon and numbered as shown, there being one hook, 18, in the middle, a hook near the circumference on each of the eight radial lines, to wit: ll, 2, 3, 4,. 5, 6, 1l and l2, and four hooks on the four diagonal lines in termediate the center and circumference, to wit: 7, 8, 9 and l0.

The rings B are shown as hung upon the hook. These may be of any material, and be plain or ornamental, and round or of other shape.v Their number is immaterial, butI contemplate the use of six by `each player, and there may be any number of players.

The target A is supportedvby the easel, by resting upon the hooks or studs C in the fronts of the side legs D and E, and the hooks F secured to the legs engaging the rings (only one being shown) in the back of the target.

The side legs of the target engage byV means of studs H entering sockets I shown in dotted lines, the studs being on one leg and the sockets in the other, at the meeting tops thereof. The engagement is ensured and maintained by means of two eyes K on the back of the legs, into which` enter the prongs L of the fork M at the top of the rear leg N. The prongs L flare outward slightly to draw and lock the tops of legs D and E together. A long hook bar O engaging the eyes P and Q on the side legs D and E near the lower ends thereof, maintain their proper spacing at that point.

The fork M hasv a flatsurface R at an angle with the leg N to bear against the legs 1lo), E, and gauge the slant of the rear mem- Having thus described my invention, and an embodiment of it, in the full, clear and exact terms required by law, and knowing that it comprises novel, useful and valuable improvements in the art to Which it pertains, l here state that l do not Wish to be limited to the precise construction and arrangements of the several parts, as herein set forth, as the same may be variously modified by a skilled mechanic Without departing from the spirit of the invention.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent or. the United States, is the following,to Wit:

l, s an article of. manufacture, a game board comprising a vertical stationary target made of one piece of material and of a circular shape, hoolrs circularly disposed upon said target, one oi" said hooks being centrally located, eight hooks secured near its circular edge and four intermediate hooks on its oblique radii, in lcombination with rings adapted to be thrown by the players to engage said hooks, an easel provided with studs for removably supporting said targety above the floor and hooks on said easelrengaging rings on said target adapted to hold firmly said target in a vertical po sition. l

2. As an article otnianufacture a game board comprising a vertical stationary tar-` get of a circular shape having a plurality of hooks circularly arranged thereon, each hooi: being ot a diii'erent permanent denoiniy nation, one ot said hooks being located in the center of saidutarget and marked 13, eight hooks near its circular edge marked l, 2, 3. 4, 5, (i, il and l2, andrfour intermediate hooks on its oblique radii marked i', S, Sl and' it), in combination With rings adapted to engage said hooks and removable .iosnrn o. Minn. 

